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The Hot and Warm Springs Valley of Virginia has been connected with the main line of the 
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway by a standard-gauge railroad twenty-five miles in length, 
starting from Covington, Va., twenty-two miles East of White Sulphur, and twelve miles west 
of Clifton Forge. Through trains from the East and West, via the Chesapeake and Ohio 
Railway, have direct connection at Covington with trains for the Hot Springs. The com- 
pletion of this road places the Hot Springs Valley within fourteen hours by rail from New 
York, twelve hours from Philadelphia, nine hours from Baltimore, eight hours from Washing- 
ton and Richmond, ten hours from Norfolk and twelve hours from Cincinnati. 

Heal in 2!* 3Drin2*S "^'^^ Heallng springs are three miles from the railway station 

at Hot Springs, and are reached in thirty minutes by a line of 
comfortable coaches which run in connection with every train. There is telephone connec- 
tion with the depot and with the hotels at Hot and Warm Springs. 

No place in the Virginia mountains is more pleasing or picturesque. The scenery is 
impressive and beautiful beyond description. The quiet, peaceful grandeur of the surround- 
ings has a powerful effect on the imagination and is a potent factor in aiding the recovery of 
those afflicted with nervous troubles. 

The air is pure, dry, bracing and full of ozone. The temperature is uniform and 
delightful through the entire season. The hotel and cottages have both been recendy painted 
inside and out. The rooms are large and cheerful. They are kept scrupulously clean, and 
the management throughout is charmingly home-like and in thorough harmony with all of 
the surroundings. 






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Supply of Water, The supply of water is abundant, being derived from four 

Temoerature springs of essentially the same character, and is beautifully 

bright and crystaline, the ever-bursting bubbles of gas that 

escape with the water and float in myriads of vesicles upon its surface imparting to it a 

peculiar, sparkling appearance. Its temperature is uniformly 85 to 88 degrees Fahrenheit. 

Bathing Facilities, Since the close of last season a new bath-house has been 

ImDrovements erected, which has been constructed with resting rooms in 

connection with each bath-room, and modern appliances, 

so as to be able to furnish hot baths and those of natural temperature as the necessities 

demand. 

The waters of these springs are almost identical in their chemical analysis to the famous 
Schlagenbad and Ems, in Germany, and what was said by the Frenchman when taking a bath 
in the former may also be said of these baths — "That one becomes absolutely in love with 
himself in this bath " Youth becomes more beautiful, more brilliant, and old age is imbued 
with new vigor. 

Dr. Burke's Opinion of Dr. Eurke, in his work on the Mineral Spking.s of Virginia, 
the Value of the Baths says ; " As to the temperature of this water, it stands alone in 
of this Place ^^^^ springs region, on the confines of the Cold and Warm. 

It is the most delightful bath thit can be imagined. I plunged 
into it by way of experiment, and a greater luxury in bathing I have never enjoyed. It is 
the only water I have met with of a temperature that may be denominated tepid, and there- 
fore possesses advantages of no ordinary character. With the least possible shock to the 
system, it gradually abstracts from it its superabundant caloric." 



Diseases Cured The diseases to which experience has proved the great value 

bv it's Use °^ ^^^^ water are : chronic laryngitis, neuralgia, bronchial 
affections, scrofula, asthma, chronic ophthalmic affections, 
chronic gastritis, oxoena, dyspepsia, diseases of the skin, chronic diarrhoea, erysipelas, chronic 
dysentery, nervous diseases of all kinds, chronic diseases of liver, spinal irritation, diseases 
of the kidneys, diseases of bones, irritability of the bladder, diseases peculiar to females, 
urinary deposits, enlarged prostate gland. 

. . . Chronic This disease, so common among persons who have a predis- 

. position to tubercular disease, and especially those who are 

^ * ' dyspeptic or accustomed to public speaking, has been most 
successfully treated at the Healing Springs. The Rev. Dr. S. G. P. Anderson, of St. Louis, 
Mo., who came to the Healing Springs scarcely able to speak above a whisper, with great 
depression of spirits, and scarcely able to take even the simplest nourishment, writes of himself 
as follows : 

Dear Doctor : — A grateful sense of benefits received, and a hope of doing good to 
other sufferers, induces me to place at your disposal a record of my experience at the Healing 
Springs. As you have been informed, I have been a sufferer from dyspeptic neuralgia for 
twenty-five years. This malady has been so severe as to render life well nigh a burden. In 
addition, I have for the last three years been afflicted by follicular laryngitis, which made 
speaking always difficult, and often well nigh impossible. Almost immediately on using the 
healing waters my appetite, strength and spirits improved, my hoarseness diminished, and my 
nervous sufferings almost entirely disappeared. After a month's use of the waters I considered 
myself in better health than for twenty-five years. I am still improving, and expect to con- 
tinue so. Hoping that this statement will direct other sufferers to the wonderful efficacy of 
these waters, I am your obliged and grateful friend, 

S. G. P. Anderson. 



Chronic Diseases Perhaps no single organ of the human body is subject to more 

^t ♦u^ I : ,^^ deviation from health than the liver. From the importance of 
. . . oi the Liver. • ,v- , ■ , , r i ■ • i 

Its otince, and its extended range of sympathies, its derange- 
ment, either functional or organic, is a prolific source of disease. When the water is properly 
used in this condition, its sanative influence is soon manifested by a return of healthy biliary 
secretions, and a relief from all the accompanying symptoms, as sallow and i)uffed api^earance 
of the skin, constipation, languor, etc. 



Experience has tarnished the amplest proofs of the utility of 
this water in the treatment of the diseases of these organs. A 
X'irginia gentleman, who was a great sufferer from a gouty 
inflammation of the kidneys, bladder, and enlargement of the 
prostate gland, who was so reduced by his suffering and want 
of sleep as to be helpless and bed-ridden, was in the course of 

a few weeks relieved, and returned home (juite comfortable, and able to walk about. This 

was one of hundreds of rmi.irk.'iblp ( nri's 



Diseases of the Kidneys, 
Bladder, Urinary De= 
posits and Enlarged 
Prostate Glands . . . 




Analysis of the Waters of the Healing Springs. 

Bath County, Virginia. 



The latest Analysis, by Dr. H. Froehling, Analytical Chemist, Richmond, Va., in 1896, as 
follows : 



Temperature, 



CKAINS PER V. S. (iAI.LON. 

Matjnesium Carljonate 3.13867 

--'0.70289 

09331 

00699 

03033 

01225 

Trace 

5.73208 

1 .82069 



Calcium 

Strontium 

Barium 

Iron (Ferrous) 

Manganous 

Zinc, Lead, Copper. 

Magnesium Sulphate 

Potassium 

Sodium 2.95556 

Cliloride 6S232 

]3romide 00408 

Iodide 00017 

" Phosphate 00933 



Lithium Clilcjride. 

Rubithum 

C a Ic i u m F 1 no r i d e . 

Alumina 

Silica 



GR.\IXS PER r. S. G.U.I.ON. 

05190 

Trace 

Trace 

04316 

1.36697 



36.65070 



Carbon Dioxide combined with Mono- 
Carbonates to form Bi-Carbonates, 



10.75326 
47.40396 



Carbon Dioxide Gas, free, 10.56 cubic inches. 



Routes . . . From New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash- 

to the Springs ington, can take Chesapeake & Ohio Railway direct to 
Hot Springs, via Covington, Va. 

From Chicago, St. Louis, etc., the Big Four Railway to Cincinnati, thence 
Chesapeake & Ohio Railw^ay to Hot Springs, via Covington, Va. 

From the Southwest via Louisville or Cincinnati and connect with the Chesapeake 
(S: Ohio Railway direct to Hot Springs. 

From the South, via Queen & Crescent Route, to Lexington, Ky., or Cincinnati, 
thence Chesapeake e\: Ohio Railway direct to Hot Springs. 

From the Southeast, via Richmond or Lynchburg and the ('hesapeake (.*v: Ohio 
Railway. 

Round-Trip Tourist Tickets as above will be on sale during the summer at the 
principal ticket offices throughout the country. 



For Descriptive Matter, 



Time tables and g 
of the following C. 



H. W. Fuller, General Passenger Agent, 
Washington, D. C. 

C. B. Ryan, Ass't General Passenger Agent, 
Cincinnati, O. 

John D. Potts, Division Passenger Agent. 
Riclimond, Va. 

G. M. Bond, City Passenger Agent, 518 and 
1421 Pennsylvania Avenne, Wasliington, 
D. C. 

1'raxk McConneli,, Passenger Agent, 879 
Broadway, New York. Transfer Office, 1828 
Broadway. Offices Pennsylvania Railroad. 

Philadelphia. Offices Pennsylvania Railroad. 

Baltimore. Offices Pennsylvania Railroad. 



eneral information, call on or address either 
& O. agencies: 

L). E. Holmes, Passenger and Ticket Agent 
iScnithwest corner Fifth and Walnut Streets, 
Cincinnati, O. 

R. E. Parsons, Ticket Agent, 258 Fourth 
Avenue, I^ouisville, Ky. 

Geo. W. B.\rney, District I'assenger Agent, 
Phcrnix Hotel, Lexington, Ky. 

E. B. Pope, Western Passenger Agent, corner 
Broadway and Chestnut Street, St. Louis, 
Mo. 

.\. S. Miller, Traveling Passenger Agent, 
corner Meridian and Washington Streets, 
Indianapolis, Ind. 

T. C. Wells, Traveling Passenger Agent, 
Dallas, Texas. 



For information as to Rooms, Terms, etc., at Healing Springs, address 

Arthur M. Stimson, 

Lessee and Manager, 

Healing Springs, Bath Co., Va. 



Or E. A. POLE, M. D., 

Resident^Physician. 



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